Flock & ALPR Cameras in Charlotte, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Charlotte — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Charlotte, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Charlotte itself.
The rest sit in Eaton Township (3).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Charlotte Police Department (8). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14, 2026 City of Charlotte — City Council Sep 14, 2026
- Aug 24, 2026 City of Charlotte — City Council Aug 24, 2026
- Aug 24, 2026 On the agenda: Charlotte meeting — Flock Camera (Aug 24)
- Mar 23, 2026 On the agenda: Charlotte meeting — flock camera (Mar 23)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Charlotte in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Charlotte
The readers mapped around Charlotte break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Charlotte Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Lansing Street — 2 readers
- Packard Highway — 2 readers
- East Lansing Road — 2 readers
- East Shepherd Street — 1 reader
- East Clinton Trail — 1 reader
- Lovett Street — 1 reader
Charlotte MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Charlotte MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
Charlotte in the Eaton County picture
Eaton County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,124 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 109,000 residents and 1,018 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Charlotte Police Department (8).
What’s watching Charlotte
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Charlotte — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Charlotte (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Charlotte
- City of Charlotte — City Council Sep 14, 2026
- On the agenda: Charlotte meeting — Flock Camera (Aug 24)
- On the agenda: Charlotte meeting — flock camera (Mar 23)
- On the agenda: Charlotte meeting — Flock camera (Mar 9)
What you can do in Charlotte
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Charlotte
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).